Wednesday, October 23, 2013

There are a lot of cliché-free writers, and there are still dozens who
make a very good living at it. Alice Munro is a number-one bestseller in
Canada. Ian McEwan had a string of hits, and so did Cormac McCarthy,
belatedly. I’m not the only one.

Saturday, October 19, 2013

The irresistible rise of Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Admi Party (AAP) is nothing short of a miracle. It is a political rags-to-riches story, for it shows that politics and power are not the exclusive preserve of fat cats with money and lineage. Arvind has had his share of reverses (the bad-tempered split with Anna Hazare, alle­gations of links with the Sangh parivar which almost saw his party gobbled up by the likes of Ramdev and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar), yet today opinion polls suggest he is a serious challenger both to the Congress and the BJP. Moreover, he is the most “preferred” candidate for the post of chief minister. All this in just over one year.via

Saturday, October 05, 2013

“This country is more diverse than it’s ever been, yet the addiction to
whiteness is more pernicious than ever. It’s like America
has an addiction to whiteness; if we don’t get our five doses of
whiteness a day we’ll die.”via